October 16, 1972 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
In 'Stop-Action,' the Bears' Dick Butkus may have taken his title too seriously
Mad Games
There was no disguising the gusto with which baseball's pennant contenders threw themselves—plus a wild bat and a rhubarb or two—into the playoffs
By Ron Fimrite
Outgoing champion Stewart raced through sun, fog and wind to lead incoming champ Fittipaldi to the pot of gold at the end of the Grand Prix
By Robert F. Jones
AN ANGRY GIANT ENDS CINDERELLA'S DANCE
For two years mighty USC fell under the spell of more glamorous Stanford, but last week its army of athletes rebelled
By Roy Blount Jr.
Bengal Brains
A concert pianist-composer and a computer analyst keep Cincinnati on top of the intellectual league
By Ron Reid
Pro Basketball '72/'73
Turning All the Glitter To Gold
NO BUSINESS LIKE BOE'S BUSINESS
They laughed when this former fruit and nut salesman bought a basketball team. Now it's the Nets who are chock-full of chuckles
By Peter Carry
People
College Football
Tulane dines high on one man's family
It's an immovable feast in New Orleans now that the Foley brothers—Steve, Mike and Rob—and most everybody else in their vast clan are leading that old ripple, the Green Wave, to its finest splash in years
By Gwilym S. Brown
Hunting
With the accuracy of lunar rockets, a team of astronauts won the 29th One-Shot Antelope Hunt on the game-rich plains of Lander, Wyo.
Horse Racing
Now, was that a good way to break the ice?
Angel Penna was coolly received by the French when he moved to Paris to train; now he has won, if not their hearts, their biggest turf prize
Bad
Presenting Ilie Nastase, paradox from Rumania: at most times a joyous companion, bon vivant and ladies' man, but with a racket in his hand a rascal—a baiter of opponents and officials alike
For The Record
A roundup of the week Oct. 3-9
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Robert W. Creamer